Senior DevOps & SRE Engineer

Vugar K

Information

Available hours \ week
40 h/w
Seniority level
Senior
Years of experience
15 yrs.
Location
Germany
Timezone
(GMT+01:00) Berlin

Languages

Russian
Fluent (C2)
Turkish
Fluent (C2)
Azerbaijani
Fluent (C2)
English
Fluent (C2)

About

Vugar is a Senior DevOps & Cloud Engineer with a Master's in IT from Southern New Hampshire University and 10+ years of experience. He holds AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure AZ-104, DevOps Expert, and Solutions Architect Expert certifications, and is a certified Kubestronaut. Vugar has deep expertise across AWS and Azure, managing production EKS and AKS clusters, leading microservices migrations, and implementing GitOps with Argo CD. His CI/CD toolkit spans GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps, while his IaC work centers on Terraform across multi-account environments. He builds robust observability stacks using Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, and ELK/EFK, and has delivered solutions across SaaS, IoT, heavy industry, and Fintech sectors.

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Experience

Introduct Group

Senior DevOps & SRE Engineer

About the Project

The project involved building three separate iGaming platforms from scratch, covering the complete cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, DevOps, and observability stack. The platforms were deployed across both Azure and AWS, with some products running on Azure and others on AWS as part of a hybrid cloud strategy; we intentionally kept the environments separate to provide greater flexibility, isolation, and operational independence. Infrastructure was fully managed using Terraform, with two environments per product and Kubernetes-based workloads deployed through Argo CD and GitOps practices. The platforms supported customer-facing online gaming services, with a strong focus on scalability, high availability, security, and reliable production operations. A comprehensive observability stack using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and related monitoring and logging tools provided centralized visibility, alerting, troubleshooting, and operational support.

  • Gambling

Responsibilities

- Was responsible for the end-to-end cloud and DevOps infrastructure for three iGaming platforms, supporting both Azure and AWS environments; - Designed and provisioned the infrastructure using Terraform, implemented AKS/EKS Kubernetes environments, and established two environments per product; - Implemented GitOps-based application delivery using Argo CD and built the monitoring and logging stack with Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki; - Designed CI/CD processes, automated infrastructure and deployments, and worked closely with development teams to ensure reliable and scalable production environments; - My work enabled the teams to launch three platforms from scratch with standardized, repeatable, and highly automated cloud infrastructure.

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Ridango

Senior DevOps & SRE Engineer

About the Project

The project focused on delivering a scalable cloud-based platform for public transportation ticketing and fare management, enabling transport operators to manage fares, tickets, payments, and passenger services. The scope included developing and operating cloud infrastructure, containerized applications, CI/CD pipelines, and production Kubernetes environments. The platform was designed for public transport operators and passengers, supporting reliable ticketing and fare collection across different transportation networks. Key services included ticket and fare management, payment processing, passenger-facing applications, backend microservices, APIs, and integrations with external transportation and payment systems.

  • Transportation

Responsibilities

- Worked on cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices supporting ticketing and fare-management solutions; - Used Azure DevOps to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated application builds, testing, and deployments across environments; - Managed Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) workloads, including deployments, scaling, configuration, and troubleshooting; - Worked with Terraform, Docker, Helm, Azure Container Registry (ACR), and Git to implement infrastructure as code and streamline application delivery.

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FNZ

Senior Cloud Devops Engineer

About the Project

At FNZ, I worked as a Cloud DevOps Engineer on a large-scale Azure fintech platform supporting wealth management and investment workloads for global financial institutions. When I joined, we had just 2 subscriptions; by the end, the environment had grown to over 200, driven by rapid business expansion and strict regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions. The project's goal was to build a secure, compliant, scalable cloud foundation. We used Terraform to deploy a hub-and-spoke network model with centralized connectivity and isolated landing zones per business unit, environment, and tenant. Azure DevOps served as the CI/CD platform, with reusable pipeline templates and modules enforcing policy-as-code, tagging, and security controls automatically. Being heavily regulated, the platform leveraged the full breadth of Azure services (AKS, App Service, Key Vault, Front Door, Private Link, Defender, Sentinel) plus selected AWS services for integrations and DR.

  • Fintech

Responsibilities

- Was responsible for designing, deploying, and operating Azure landing zones at scale using Terraform and Azure DevOps; - Built reusable IaC modules and pipeline templates that enabled the platform to grow from 2 subscriptions to over 200 while maintaining consistent security, networking, and compliance standards across every environment; - Implemented and maintained the hub-and-spoke network topology, configured Azure Policy and guardrails to enforce regulatory controls, and integrated Key Vault, Private Link, Defender for Cloud, and Sentinel into the standard baseline; - Supported AKS workloads, troubleshot production incidents, and worked closely with security and platform teams on hardening initiatives, including app registration secret monitoring and identity governance; - My work significantly reduced subscription onboarding time, improved audit readiness for financial regulators, and enabled product teams to self-serve infrastructure safely.

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Solid State Technology Solutions

Cloud Engineer

About the Project

The project focused on modernizing and supporting cloud infrastructure for healthcare applications and services, with workloads running across AWS and Azure. The scope included migrating on-premises applications to the cloud, designing highly available and secure infrastructure, and supporting Kubernetes-based applications. The platform provided the underlying infrastructure, networking, security, monitoring, and deployment capabilities required for healthcare applications and internal services. Key technologies included AWS, Azure, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, cloud networking, IAM, monitoring, and centralized logging.

  • Recruiting

Responsibilities

- Was responsible for designing, implementing, and operating AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure, with a strong focus on scalability, availability, security, and automation; - Migrated on-premises workloads to AWS, provisioned infrastructure using Terraform and other IaC tools, and designed Kubernetes environments using EKS; - Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines and automated application and infrastructure deployments across multiple environments; - Implemented cloud security, networking, monitoring, and logging solutions and supported production troubleshooting; - Helped improve deployment speed, infrastructure reliability, operational consistency, and the overall modernization of the company's cloud environment.

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Broadcom Technology Group

AWS DevOps Cloud Engineer

About the Project

The project focused on building and supporting cloud-based infrastructure and application delivery environments on AWS. The scope included migrating and deploying applications to AWS, establishing automated CI/CD processes, and providing reliable infrastructure for development and production workloads. The environment included AWS compute, networking, storage, security, monitoring, and Linux-based systems. Key technologies included AWS, Jenkins, Linux, scripting, infrastructure automation, monitoring, and CI/CD, with the goal of improving deployment speed, reliability, and operational efficiency.

  • Telecommunications

Responsibilities

- Was responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining AWS infrastructure and supporting application delivery across cloud environments; - Built and maintained Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to automate application builds, testing, and deployments, while also managing Linux-based cloud systems and AWS services; - Implemented infrastructure automation, monitoring, and operational processes to improve reliability and reduce manual work; - Worked closely with development teams to troubleshoot deployment and infrastructure issues and ensure applications were delivered consistently; - This role was my first dedicated AWS DevOps position and established a strong foundation in cloud automation, CI/CD, and AWS infrastructure engineering.

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Rapid7

Cloud Network Engineer

About the Project

The project focused on building and operating secure cloud and network infrastructure supporting Rapid7's security products and internal services. The scope covered AWS cloud infrastructure, enterprise networking, firewalls, Linux systems, and automation across cloud environments. The platform required secure and reliable connectivity between cloud resources, corporate networks, and production systems. Key technologies included AWS, Cisco ASA, Check Point firewalls, Cisco switching, Linux, Chef, Puppet, and cloud networking services, with a strong focus on security, automation, and operational reliability.

  • Cyber-security

Responsibilities

- Worked as a Cloud Network Engineer, responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting AWS networking and cloud infrastructure; - Configured and maintained Cisco ASA, Check Point firewalls, Cisco switches, and cloud networking components, while troubleshooting complex connectivity and security issues; - Managed Linux-based cloud environments and used Chef and Puppet for configuration management and infrastructure automation; - Supported the integration of traditional enterprise networking with AWS cloud infrastructure and helped improve the reliability and security of cloud environments; - This role was a key transition from traditional network engineering into AWS cloud and DevOps engineering.

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Education

Southern New Hampshire University

2015 - 2017
Master in Information Technology

Qafqaz University

2005 - 2010
Bachelor in Computer Science